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Yea, well we almost never get a project that requires us to go above 5,000 feet. Most of our customers what 6 inch resolution or even higher. So on rare occasions we need to go to 10,000 feet. Of course was can't get much higher. We don't have a oxygen system on the airplanes we fly. That is about as useless as a life raft.
The 6 inch resolution is basically if you imagine we made a print that was "life size" so that an object in the photo is the same size as the real object on the ground, each pixel of the image covers 6 inches. We can shoot higher resolution, it just cost the client more money. And our mapping software can "zoom" in to the point that a single pixel fills the screen, and we can measure it. We just finished a project that covered a couple of square miles at 6 inch resolution. The final tif file was 3.6 GB with LZW compression and no layers.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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